History has shown players like powerful things and lower powered sets or sets that appear lower powered have weaker player appeal responses and purchase patterns. Does this mean that powercreep is inevitable and at some future date Moxes will be made obsolete? Especially in an eternal world can player expectations be met without bringing the game full circle with everyone having Black Lotus Channel Fireball as their deck?

We’ve been making Magic for almost thirty years, and power creep has not overtaken the game, so I think we have a handle on it.

Hey Mark, on the very latest episode on the youtube channel Extra Credits (a really good channel about game design) the narrator makes a joke about playing magic with his cat to pass the time until next week's episode

Cool!

Hi Mark. If you were to print a card like channel, ie pay life get mana, would it still be mono green or black-green.

I don’t think we’d make it for play design reasons, but it’s in black’s color pie.

FYI, the entire stream (including all the cookie-making goodness) is archived on the Magic Twitch channel.

A good FYI.

Re: "We’re not going to unbalance current Magic to make up for early imbalances in the color pie." I respect your answer. At the same time, I wonder wouldn't Battlebond/Conspiracy/similar be a channel to balance older formats while only adding those cards to the formats that have old blue imbalances, thus preserving "current" Modern and Standard?

We design each set to be balanced unto itself. Players, for example, should be able to enjoy Battlebond without having to have it interact with other components.

Correction: Jimmy and Josh from the Command Zone Youtube channel have "Extra Turns", not "Extra Moves"

Oops. “Extra Turns”.

For what it's worth, in Bylaw and Order, the ravnica d&d campaign that just finished running in the wotc twitch channel, the newspaper we see us run by the dimir.

FYI

I know you're not in charge of it but whatever happened to Inside R & D?

I’m not sure. I did record two half hour interviews with different R&D members as a pilot for a new show idea I had (tentatively called “R&D Tales”). They were streamed on Black Friday on the Magic Twitch channel. One was with Erik Lauer and the other Andrew Veen. Both were about Guilds of Ravnica design. Did any of you see it?

I feel like the community does a much better job of criticizing you guys then it is at praising your work. I've done this myself on this channel quite a bit. Here goes really well deserved praise though: i absolutely love arena. It has become one of my favorite ways to play Magic. I've been drafting almost everyday because of it, and actually experiencing standard after a very long time of just Cmdr play. It really is everything i wanted, an accessible way to play more Magic.

I’m happy to hear that. : )

Regarding Magic in the media, it looks like there is someone in the Brazilian Youtube channel Porta dos Fundos who really likes Magic, because here is another reference: in one of their videos, called Meia (Half), at the end of the video (1:36, to be precise), someone gives an Island to the cinema cashier, in order to pay half to see the movie (a regular practice for students in Brazil). =)

: )